According to reports, 710 indigenous people, mostly girls, vanished between 20 but their stories hardly broke through to the news cycle.Įven seemingly facetious Laundrie “stans” acknowledge this grim reality. Meanwhile, there is a dearth of such reporting on Black and Latina women and women of lower economic status. 11, and her story lit news networks and social media aflame, many reasonable people pointed out the delirium amounted to “missing white woman syndrome.” The term, coined in 2004 by PBS NewsHour co-anchor Gwen Ifill, describes the fevered and inordinate coverage of, and obsession with, young, usually upper-middle-class white women who disappear. Soon after Petito was reported missing on Sept. Another chimed in: “Stop worrying about body shaming and worry about the fact that you’re mentally ill enough to be supporting a murderer.” “Why isn’t this subreddit renamed like Loser Incels or something?” one commenter noted. These same people will watch a Ted bundy documentary and fawn and swoon…”Ĭase-watchers and Petito family supporters are taking the bait. Brian is being accused of killing Gabby (with no evidence of doing so) and brians name is being dragged through dirt. The post continued, “One has to wonder if there is body shaming at play here. “Is Brian not attractive enough for gabby cultist (observation),” read one headline from an apparent edgelord.
troops from Afghanistan.Ī site in the Reddit underworld, r/FriendsofBrian, is attracting trolls, Petito supporters, and men’s rights adherents. In darker corners of the internet, Brian Laundrie is a victim of domestic violence, a symbol of bias against men when it comes to abuse accusations from women, and a poster boy for how bald men are treated as second-class citizens.Īnd to those in the QAnon set, the 23-year-old person of interest in the death of Gabby Petito is merely the fall guy in a vast conspiracy meant to distract from criticism over President Biden’s withdrawal of U.S.
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